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English?Language:?American?or?British Being?the?paternal?language?of?the?other?native?Englishes?(Canadian?English,?Australian?English,?New?Zealand?English?and?South?African?English),?British?English?and?American?English?today?are?the?two?main?English?languages?of?the?English-speaking?world.?Although?too?many?has?already?been?said?over?how?the?scope,?the?types,?and?the?possible?effects?of?the?inconsistency?between?the?two?kinds?will?be?in?the?future,?the?quarrel?on?the?issue?has?not?come?to?an?end?at?all. The?cover?of?the?journal?Forum?XXVII,?No?3,?July?1989,?recalling?the?topic?and?provides?a?research?of?evidence?of?the?difference?between?the?two?kinds?of?English?over?the?centuries.?Noah?Webster?(in?Dissertations?on?the?English?Language)?claimed?that?a?further?incompatibility?of?the?American?language?from?the?English?necessary?and?inevitable.?He?also?predicted?that?“North?American?English?would?eventually?be?as?different?from?British?as?Dutch,?Danish?and?Swedish?are?from?German?or?from?one?another”.?Mark?Twain?(in?The?Stolen?White?Elephant)?thought?American?and?British?English?to?be?different?languages?and?declared?that?the?former,?spoken?“in?its?utmost?purity”,?cannot?be?understood?by?an?English?people?at?all.?This?attitude?was?previously?expressed?by?Captain?Thomas?Hamilton?(in?Men?and?Manners?in?America).?He?said?that?“in?another?century,?the?dialect?of?the?Americans?will?become?utterly?unintelligible?to?an?Englishman.” Authors?of?the?twentieth?century?hold?entirely?different?attitude?toward?those?of?the?previous?centuries,?they?tend?to?have?a?much?more?distinctive?feeling?of?sameness?between?American?and?British?English.?Thus,?Mitford?M.?Mathews?(from?Beginnings?of?American?English)?sees?the?two?kinds?to?be?“so?overwhelmingly?alike.”?For?Stephen?Leacock?(from?How?to?Write),?“There?is?not?the?faintest?chance?of?there?ever?being?an?American?language?as?apart?from?English.”?Randolph?Quirk?(in?The?New?York?Times?Magazine),?believes?that,?”even?in?matters?of?pronunci